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  • Every Ship Is a Romantic Object
  • Cait Weiss Orcutt (bio)

except that we sail in. The only thing grief has taught meis how to swallow it. None of us could see the intelligencefor the artifice. I remember Manhattan's vertebrae, every boneof spine. How the aerial tram slithered like a silk skirt downtwo thighs the moment the bomb dropped / the computerswoke. The right image of a woman's body can justify anything.When I left my child under the Queensboro, I didn't thinkI shouldn't do this. All I thought: It's finally happening.Then: Run. [End Page 10]

Cait Weiss Orcutt

Cait Weiss Orcutt teaches creative writing at the University of Houston and Inprint. Her book Valleyspeak (2017) won the Zone 3 First Book Award.

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